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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 3d

Breach? Sounds like people gave their data to the government on a promise of disaster support, the government gave their data and our money to a contractor on a promise of service provision, and the contractor gave their data to a tech business on a promise of slop.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT

The NSW Reconstruction Authority says the breach occurred in March and involved the personal data of applicants to the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

Smiting and vengeance is so much easier than forgiveness and charity

Random Ralph @ralphb3rd.bsky.social · 4d

A lot of evangelicals seem to be more attracted to the vengeful God of the Old Testament than the forgiving God of the New.

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Matt El @mrmrleonard.bsky.social · 4d

Great part of the world. Just been hanging in Monopoli 🤌

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 7d

Trump is a con artist & he’s representing a legion of oligarchs & criminals. They’ll maintain power long after he’s gone. It’s a sleight of hand strategy; Trump rambles or passes some EO that is going to be shut down by the courts. In the background massive embezzlement & fleecing is taking place.

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Matt El @mrmrleonard.bsky.social · 11d

#MarescaOut stodgy slow & gutless

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 11

ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.

Sam @very-simple.com · Aug 11

also, so many of these people are just taking company confidential, proprietary data and dumping it into public iterations of ChatGPT, which is so incredibly problematic on so many levels. Even on our internal approved tools I have to tell people to turn them off when discussing certain legal stuff!

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 14d

Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt

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Donna Benjamin @kattekrab.bsky.social · 14d

Do you care about your #RightToKnow and Freedom of Information? Do you know there's currently a bill before the Australian Parliament?

Do you have lived experience with the #FOI system?

Consider sharing your perspective?

www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

@oaf.org.au @asherwolf.bsky.social

Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025

Committee: Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee Date referred: 4 September 2025 Submissions close: 1 October 2025 Reporting date: 3 December 2025 On 4 September 2025, the Senate...

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Matt El @mrmrleonard.bsky.social · 13d

Such a top quality show

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Cat Walker @kelpieunicorns.bsky.social · 14d

I've discovered things under FOI that I can't talk about yet.

Those things were extremely difficult to access under the current FOI Act.

There is no way I would have succeeded under this bill. I would be powerless and at the mercy of the things revealed.

That is what this is really about.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 21d

Clarke and Dawe; The Gillies Report; Rubbery Figures; The Hollowmen; Tonightly; Micallef Mad as Hell: Mark Humphries; The Chaser… We can run a once-a-week show like Charlie Pickering for 12 shows in a row, but what happens for the rest of the year?

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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 21d

magnificent finish that, shame he was a toe offside. Great pass Andrey, maybe play him more?

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Matt El @mrmrleonard.bsky.social · 22d

Should Arsenal buy a striker?

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 24d

Why is it necessary in the pantomime of political reporting to seek the input on every issue of a group with perishingly few seats and NO policies? What is the point of it?

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 25d

If only we had national anti- corruption commission to look into things like this

Rationalist Society of Australia @ausrationalist.bsky.social · 26d

The ABC reports that, within months of leaving parliament, former health minister Greg Hunt started working for a Plymouth Brethren-linked company whose owners won $135 million in government contracts for COVID supplies. Read more: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#auspol

Former minister working for three companies linked to controversial religious group

The Sydney-based church has been described by former members and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a "cult".

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Matt El @mrmrleonard.bsky.social · 29d

Oof. Deliberately cheeky colour palate observation?
“that’s Australian gold my friend”

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 29d

man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 29d

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker
The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security"

To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.

Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app.

Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 29d

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

bnacker @bnacker.bsky.social · 29d

Starting to regret inventing the podcast

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Sep 8

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files

A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.

It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...